We all (well, who survived) will be 10 years older
Ask HN: What are your predictions for the next 10 years for our daily lives?
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#12Robo-servants at home. Imagine not doing any mundane tasks at home (cooking, cleaning etc) On the worse side : if there are robos at home. There will be sure outside in streets too. So we will have to figure out new jobs for ourselves.
People have been predicting this for 50 years. It turns out it's a really hard problem - I'm comfortable saying it's still much more than ten years away. We could possibly get fusion power before we get this the way things are going.
Progress is exponential. Right now a lot is possible but maybe not commercially viable.
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#13It’s a stretch but urban farms: malls will be turned into farms. The produce will be on racks so you might have 20 layers. Right now like half of all produce spoils. This way you can also deliver fresh produce the day it will be consumed. You can deliver the perfect combination of water and nutrients for plant growth. No pests, transportation, weather damage etc. it’s gonna be big.
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#14I work in the fishing industry. Based on what I am seeing - fully autonomous fishing boats/cleaning/packing plants. You know how you have a single farmer handling hectares of farmland, its really looking like fisheries are going to go the same way easily in 10 years.
This sounds interesting. Will this make fish much much cheaper? Will it be easier to regulate since it is all data is stored? Are these companies more interested in regulation (since if theyve invested so much they may want longterm production)
Probably short term it will be slightly less and then become extremely expensive as our already overfished reserves dwindle from automated over-fishing.
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#15There will be another monolithic internet company doing shady things with our data that we all complain about.
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#16I work in the fishing industry. Based on what I am seeing - fully autonomous fishing boats/cleaning/packing plants. You know how you have a single farmer handling hectares of farmland, its really looking like fisheries are going to go the same way easily in 10 years.
This is really concerning. The fishing industry is fairly manual but many fish populations are already pushed to the brink. I went to Antartica a few months ago and I was shocked at how many squid boats we could see at night on our way down. Hundreds and hundreds with huge bright lights to lure them to their machinery. Overfishing is a real problem to the point that the current situation is almost unsustainable. I worry automation will push it over the edge.
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#17I work in the fishing industry. Based on what I am seeing - fully autonomous fishing boats/cleaning/packing plants. You know how you have a single farmer handling hectares of farmland, its really looking like fisheries are going to go the same way easily in 10 years.
I was under the impression it might become possible to lab grow fish flesh like beef, pork, chicken, etc.
It would certainly allow for clean, unpolluted fish and let the fish in our oceans recover.
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#18It’s a stretch but urban farms: malls will be turned into farms. The produce will be on racks so you might have 20 layers. Right now like half of all produce spoils. This way you can also deliver fresh produce the day it will be consumed. You can deliver the perfect combination of water and nutrients for plant growth. No pests, transportation, weather damage etc. it’s gonna be big.
Very interesting prediction. Anything in particular lead you to this apart from the discovery of grow towers?
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#19This probably sounds crazy... I think in the next ten years there will be a cultural shift away from carrying any form of electronics on yourself. That's including mobile phones and media devices.
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#20In ten years we will know one way or another if short term profits matter more to us than the long term prosperity of our civilization. And not just individuals, but how our overall system of collective government responds to individuals at a national and global level will be answered in the test.
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